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Electric Vehicles

China Sold Estimated 840,000 New Energy Passenger Vehicles in Wholesales, up 82% Yoy, February 2025

On March 4, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) estimated that China’s new energy passenger vehicle wholesale volume was 840,000 units in February,…

Biofuel

Renova Delays 50-MW Biomass Plant’s Start Again

Renova Inc. has once again moved the commencement date of its 49.9-MW Karatsu Biomass Power Plant from March to September to give more time for adjustments to t…

Solar Materials

Italy’s Enea Testing Highly Uv-Transparent Encapsulants

A research team at Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) performed accelerated UV aging tests o…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Releases Updated Model Y to the Philippines

Tesla unveiled its updated Model Y on February 26, 2025, during a modest event, with the vehicle showcased publicly at EDSA Shangri-La Plaza in the Philippines …

Solar Panel

Strategies to Reduce Perovskite Solar Cell Degradation Caused by Thermal Stress

Scientists from Germany and China have published a study on the thermal stress cycles affecting metal halide perovskite solar cells. Their research, titled Resi…

Geothermal Drilling

Geothermal Exploration in Southeastern France Completes Data Acquisition

Passage lines of the seismic survey done around the Etang de Berre in southeastern FranceThe Géoscan Arc project, focused on assessing geothermal resourc…

Metal

Aguia Resources Secures Ten-Year Lease to Use Processing Facility for Brazilian Mine

From 1 August 2025, Aguia will incur a monthly lease fee of 163,200 reais.Águia Fertilizantes, a fully owned Brazilian subsidiary of Aguia Resources, has…

Power Construction

India Considers Cash Injection for State Power Utilities Amid Rising Demand

As of March 2023, state-run distribution companies had accumulated losses of $75bn.India's Ministry of Power has proposed a financial bailout mechanism for …

LNG

Australia’s Government Delays Approval for Woodside’s Flagship LNG Project Extension

Woodside Energy chief executive, Meg O'Neill, in an interview in March 2024.The Albanese government in Australia has postponed its decision on approving Woo…

Offshore Wind Power

WavEC Shares Survey Findings for Portuguese Floating Wind Demo Site

The study was supported by oceanographic surveys carried out in March and October of 2023, collecting acoustic data and physical samples of the seabed.The repor…

Crude Oil

US Refiners Mull Switch to Alternative Lighter Crudes Amid Trump Tariff Fears

U.S. flags are displayed at Marathon Petroleum's Los Angeles Refinery in Carson, California, U.S., March 11, 2022.Top U.S. refiners are poised to seek alternati…

Crude Oil

US Refiners Mull Switch to Alternative Lighter Crudes Amid Trump Tariff Fears

U.S. flags are displayed at Marathon Petroleum's Los Angeles Refinery in Carson, California, U.S., March 11, 2022.Top U.S. refiners are poised to seek alter…

Uranium Project

Nova Scotia Bill Proposes Lifting Uranium Exploration Ban

The province's legislative chamberLegislation has been introduced in the parliament of Nova Scotia calling for the end of a ban on uranium exploration and m…

Biofuel

Malaysia Keeps March Crude Palm Oil Export Duty at 10%

Malaysia has maintained its March export tax on crude palm oil at 10%, and lowered its reference price, a circular on the Malaysian Palm Oil Board website showe…

Nuclear Reactor

Bolivia’s First Nuclear Research Reactor Hosts IAEA Mission

A team of International Atomic Energy Agency experts has visited the RB-01 research reactor under construction in Bolivia to verify agency safety standards are …